CINCINNATI — Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime and Gabriel Diallo superior to the Cincinnati Open’s third spherical in males’s singles, whereas Leylah Fernandez exited the ladies’s draw on Saturday.
The Twenty third-seeded Auger-Aliassime received 6-2, 7-6 (3) over Argentina’s Tomas Martin Etcheverry, and fellow Montrealer Diallo, the thirtieth seed, defeated Argentina’s Sebastian Baez 7-5, 6-4.
Each gamers obtained byes to the second spherical.
Auger-Aliassime hit 14 aces and 30 winners in his one-hour, 57-minute match. The 25-year-old additionally saved all 4 breakpoint possibilities he confronted whereas changing two of his 4 alternatives on the ATP Masters 1000 occasion.
It was Auger-Aliassime’s first win since Wimbledon after he misplaced to Hungary’s Fabian Marozsan within the Nationwide Financial institution Open’s second spherical on July 30.
The 24-year-old Diallo, who reached the third spherical in Toronto, struck 9 aces and scored 4 breakpoints to win in a single hour, 31 minutes.
Diallo will face world No. 1 Jannik Sinner of Italy within the subsequent spherical, whereas Auger-Aliassime meets Arthur Rinderknech of France.
Fernandez, in the meantime, misplaced her second match in a row since capturing the D.C. Open title in July.
The 22-year-old from Laval, Que., was seeded twenty first however fell 6-3, 6-3 in opposition to Jessica Bouzas Maneiro of Spain, who made good on 4 of her six breakpoint possibilities within the second-round match.
In girls’s doubles, second seeds Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa and associate Erin Routliffe of New Zealand received 7-5, 7-5 over Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan and Ena Shibahara of Japan within the first spherical.
Canadian tennis sensation Victoria Mboko, who soared to twenty fourth on the earth rankings after successful the Nationwide Financial institution Open girls’s singles crown on Thursday, withdrew from the Cincinnati Open to relaxation her injured proper wrist.
The 18-year-old Mboko is anticipated to subsequent take the courtroom within the U.S. Open later this month. She will likely be seeded on the last Grand Slam of the yr.
